The meals available to certain sectors of society have come under the public spotlight recently. Remember Jamie Oliver and his campaign to improve school meals for children? Another area of concern is the arena of hospital meals and recent news headlines show that this is a current issue. In Wales, the patients in the NHS [...]

According to reports in the industry press, although the hospitality sector has weathered the economic storm relatively well all things considered, there is still need to take into account the unusual and harsh economic factors that are relevant to today’s world. Reports about the service consultancy called Horizon have addressed this issue specifically. It has [...]

Fancy hearing some good news in terms of the economy? When we are confronted at every turn with stories of disaster on the high street – retailers struggling to stay afloat in the stormy gloomy economic climate – it seems that the catering industry is doing not too badly at all, thank you very much. [...]

The headlines have been filled with rather alarming news about the quantity of food that is discarded by NHS hospitals. Rumour has it that in excess of £22m is spent on meals that are thrown away. This is quite a figure – how was it reached? There have been some recently published assessments of statistics [...]

Professional grade catering requires professional serving kit and we stock a range of top-rated essentials that our customers return to time and time again. Kelso cutlery is a classic example and its plain cutlery range is one of the industry’s most widely used. Each item in the plain cutlery range is made from highly polished [...]

Many of us have heard of the Jamie Oliver Foundation, the charity set up by the celebrity chef, to help those who have an interest in good food – the organisation assists in teaching aspiring individuals how to cook, learn about food content and sources and also contributes to employment in the sector. Famously, the [...]

Sammic catering equipment is produced by a Spanish company with decades of experience in making high quality products. There are a wide range of catering products to choose from including peelers, mincers and mixers as well as vacuums. The Sammic range of mixers come with accessories which make food preparation as easy and straightforward as [...]

As reported in Blue Skies, the aviation online magazine, the industry has recently given birth to a catering management system, Aero Chef. What is it? It is a software system that assists inflight catering teams to streamline their business. Given the recent changes in the aviation industry, the Aero Chef team wanted to create a [...]